Topics - brownsfan05

Elections are coming and I'm not sure what to do. If I run, it will be for a position that requires less work, like a notes and comments editor. But the thing is...I am behind on my credits as a 2l from the time consumption of being an associate member and it will be hard next year to catch up and be an editor.

So I ask you: is it worth it career wise to have editor on my resume? Or would it only really be worth it to be something like managing editor or editor in chief?

I have two OCIs with biglaw firms so far. One has 12 students and the other 15. I'm not in the top 10%, but I have geographical ties and am in top 20% and on law review. My question is if I have an interview does that mean they consider me qualified and it will come down to personality and how the interview goes? Or am I just a warm body to fill up a slot and they are more concerned about top 10% students who will get a callback unless they really screw up?

I'm a 2L getting ready to send out cover letters from a 2Tier regional school. My career advisor suggested listing any geographical links with a city or why I want to live there in the cover letter.

Do you agree it's important to discuss the city or ties? I don't think it would hurt, but I'm confused about applying to big firms with multiple offices.

One of the firms coming to OCI is interviewing for multiple offices and I don't want to limit myself to one city. Another firm lists on our website lists Columbus where the recruiter is but the headquarters on NALP is Akron. What should I do for this?

Career services plugged my GPA into last year's rankings and said I would have been top 13%. So, even if things change a little, I should still be top 15%. I'm at Toledo (#85) looking to transfer. How would my chances be for Ohio State or Case? Any other schools you would suggest I try to transfer to?

I'm sorry friends, have to call it how I see it. At my school, the ones there are a homely bunch and a lot are geeky girls who just aren't attractive. Of course, there are a few attractive girls, but nothing like undergrad. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure they can kill an exam with all their dateless Friday nights available to study, but that doesn't make them attractive. I'm going to assume my school is not an anomaly since I noticed the same thing at every school I visited before coming here.

And it makes sense if you think about it. The most attractive girls in college joined sororities or got married and are probably starting a family. Law school is full of the girls who studied on a Saturday night and wanted to set the curve so high in class to get back at the jocks who never asked them to prom in high school. It's full of girls whose chance to have a boyfriend and family one day is probably slim to none, so they plan to put their all into a career and steamroll any law school competition in their way. That's why they score higher on exams than guys. They are determined. They are determined to prove to go to their high school reunion and rub it into some jock who rejected their advances who is making $40K at Enterprise-Rent-A-Car as some schlock middle manager what they are missing as this chick is a partner at biglaw making over $200K.

For my first semester of law school, I received 3 B+s and a B. There are no A-s, so a +B is a 3.5 and my GPA is 3.38. My shot of being in the top 10% for the first year is done (top 10% is usually around 3.7) and that's fine, since law school is full of 90% of people who didn't make the top 10. I am pissed that I got a B which took me off the Dean's list (need a 3.5) and that one of those B+s couldn't be an A, which would also be Dean's list and a more attractive transcript.

I'm going to go to profs to review my test and see what I did or didn't do which killed my A. Anybody else having this problem? Are A's in law school that hard to get or am I just a hack?